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Originally Posted by Liandra
Hello fellow raiders,
I'm wondering how other guilds/raids deal with "non-standard" specced classes.
1. Do you have any Shadow Priests in your raid? Does it help to have one, for added Warlock DPS?
2. Do you have any Bear Tanks? Do they tank raid bosses?
3. Do you have any Cats? Would you take a Cat over a Rogue? Why (not)?
4. Do you have any Moonkin? Does the +3% spellcrit aura compensate for the lower DPS?
5. Do you have any Protection Paladins? Do they actually tank Big Stuff?
6. Do you have any non-healing Shamans? What do they do? (I'm alliance, no experience with Shamans, but felt I had to include them here)
Or do you think any or even all of the above are ridiculous, and you should never have one of these in your raid?
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I numbered your questions.
1. We have had shadow priests in raids, but they never really use shadowform unless its on farm status content. Shadow priests are horribly inefficient for horde and can't do much damage.
2. We have people with great gear, a Bear co-tanked Firemaw and Ebonroc today, but we have never actively used a bear tank on any encounter (except Jin'do).
3. We have feral specced druids, but they heal, and mostly DPS on trash and easy bosses.
4. No, moonkin are completely worthless.
5. Not yet
6. We have Shamans that suck at healing, but at least they try. Some of them try to Windfury and Chain Lightning but they never get really far without being ridiculed.
I don't think any spec in the game is ridiculous, because after all it is a game. As long as people do their usual raid role of healing when they are told to, and know when to heal and when they can take it easy and DPS a bit, it doesn't really matter. Some of our better healers have been offspec for extended periods of time in the past and present. It's all about timing, really.